Long Way Home gives The Odyssey a modern hip-hop beat for an epic journey across Chicago

In Long Way Home, the theater group Q Brothers Collective creates a contemporary mix on Homer's epic The Odyssey: instead of hyper-masculine white men slaying mythical creatures or stirring grandiose battles, five black actors spin Homer as hip-hop verse. The play follows Odysseus, a young black woman, and her clan on their journey home from the Rogers Park Jarvis stop to the mythical southwest neighborhood of Ithac…

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